Jon Forrest <jlforrest@berkeley.edu> wrote:>>However, these days there aren't any "Turbo" language implementations>that I'm aware of. Is this because modern hardware is so fast that it>isn't worth developing compilers and linkers optimized for speed?

Perhaps you should looks at scripting language implementations, where the
code has to be compiled every time it is run, so compilation needs to be
fast. For example, the Lua interpreter compiles code to a register-based
virtual machine so its front end has a structure very similar to a simple
stand-alone compiler.